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Journal of the Association
of Future Philosophers
Government vs. HumanityCan We Solve the Problem of Government?by "Socrates" 4-10-1998

In this century, government has murdered over 200
million human beings, including the Holocaust where it murdered over six
million Jews, and we can rationally expect that government will murder
tens of millions of people next century.
Government is a major source of crimes based on racism,
nationalism and religion. It has committed theft, assault, rape and murder
on a scale otherwise unimaginable.
The crimes of government and the resulting harm to society
constitute the Problem of Government.
When U.S. government officials dropped their atomic
bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, they forever branded the U.S. government
as the first genocidal terrorist hate group to use nuclear weapons to murder
babies.
When the U.S. government murdered millions in its war
in southeast Asia, Richard Nixon became a member of the one million human
beings club, a club that is becoming less and less exclusive.
Since former U.N. General Secretary Boutros Boutros
Ghali imposed an embargo on Iraq, the U.N. has murdered approximately one
million human beings, including 700,000 children in the Iraqi Holocaust,
(according to Catholic bishops who oppose the embargo).
From the enslavement of the Jews in Egypt to the slave
laws and the Jim Crow laws in America to the "ethnic cleansing"
in Bosnia and the nuking of Japanese babies, and above all the Holocaust,
the nature of government has not changed in over 5,000 years.
The same institution that murdered Socrates and Jesus
so dramatically, now murders millions routinely, efficiently and without
fanfare.
While philosophers such as Plato, John Rawls and Robert
Nozick have attempted to reconcile government with justice, we have ample
empirical evidence that reveals the nature of government.
This evidence refutes the the old paradigm of government
and the bogus claims that government is ethically legitimate, that the
rulers have an ethical right to rule us, and that we have an ethical obligation
to obey them. On the contrary, the evidence shows that those who participate
in government have crossed an important ethical line, the line that divides
legitimate from criminal organizations.
The Problem of Government is the big story of the Twentieth
Century, and if we do nothing, we can rationally expect that it will murder
tens of millions of people in the Twenty-first century.
Realistic no-statism is a situation where all human
beings, without govenment and anarchy, live in a just, free and peaceful
society, or as close to this ideal as possible. Will we achieve realistic
no-statism, or will we do nothing and allow the old paradigm to prolong
the Problem of Government?